Antonio "Tony" Montana
Tony during the movie's final scene
Portrayed by	Al Pacino
Information
Gender	Male
Age	42
Date of birth	3/5/1940 Havana, Cuba
Date of death	2/7/1983 Miami, Florida
Occupation	Drug lord
Family	Gina Montana (sister), Georgina Montana (mother)
Spouse(s)	Elvira Hancock
Children	Unknown
Relatives	He had an American father who took him to English-languaged movie however; he left leaving Mama Montana with Gina and Tony.

Antonio "Tony" Montana is a fictional character in the Brian DePalma film Scarface and the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours, portrayed by Al Pacino. Oliver Stone came up with the name by combining the last name of his then-favorite football player (Joe Montana) and the first name from the main character of the 1932 film version, Tony Camonte, played by Paul Muni. Image File history File links Scarfaceinthefall. ... Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American actor who is best known for playing the roles of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy . ... This article is about the Male sex. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... Miami redirects here. ... A drug lord or drug baron is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. ... Brian De Palma (born September 11, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American film director. ... Scarface is a 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Antonio Tony Montana. ... Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American actor who is best known for playing the roles of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy . ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award winning film director and screenwriter. ... Joseph Clifford Joe Montana, Jr. ... Scarface (also known as Scarface, the Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 gangster film of the Pre-Code era which tells the story of gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city. ... Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. ...

In the film

Tony Montana arrives in Miami from his native Cuba on the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. Montana is refused entry into the US and sent along with his best friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer) to a make-shift detention camp. In the camp, Tony carries out a cartel hit that earns him and his friends an early release, green cards and a job washing dishes at a tiny food stand. This article is about the city in Florida. ... Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel Boatlift crisis. ... Steven Bauer (born Esteban Echevarria on December 2, 1956 in Havana,Cuba is a Golden Globe nominated Cuban-American actor. ... A United States Permanent Resident Card (green card) A United States Permanent Resident Card, also green card, is an identification card attesting the permanent resident status of an alien in the United States of America. ...

Tony and Manny soon quit their jobs after Omar (F. Murray Abraham) offers them a job to do a cocaine exchange with some dangerous Colombians. The deal goes horribly wrong. Angel, another refugee, and Tony enter and are ambushed, and Angel is dismembered with a chainsaw. In the commotion, Manny is shot, but the group escapes with the buy money and the drugs. Montana and his associates earn the respect and admiration of a powerful drug kingpin, Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), who offers them jobs. Fahrid Murray Abraham[1] (born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. ... For other uses, see Cocaine (disambiguation). ... A drug lord or drug baron is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. ... Robert Loggia (born January 3, 1930) is an American Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated film and television actor who specializes in character parts. ...

Tony sets to establish himself as a major player in the cocaine industry. Tony even has his sights on taking Lopez's mistress Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer). Tony hopes to realize a dream he once thought was impossible: to have "the world and everything in it." For other uses, see Cocaine (disambiguation). ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ...

Tony then visits his mother and his sister, Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). He doesn't get along with his mother (Miriam Colon), who recognizes him for the sociopath he is. He adores Gina, but he brutalizes any other man who tries to form a relationship with her; It implied that he harbors unacknowledged incestuous feelings for her. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born November 17, 1958 in Lombard, Illinois) is an American actress and singer of Italian descent. ... Miriam Colon (born August 20, 1936 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actress and the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. ... Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a mental disorder defined by the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: The essential feature for the diagnosis is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. ... Incest is defined as sexual relations between closely related persons (often within the immediate family) such that it is either illegal or socially taboo. ...

Tony wins the trust of Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar), a Bolivian drug lord. Through his dealings with Sosa, Tony quickly rises in Miami's underworld; he survives an assassination attempt, violently overthrows Lopez, and eventually marries Elvira. Paul Shenar (born 12 February 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; died from AIDS 11 October 1989 in West Hollywood, California, United States) was an actor. ... Assassin and Assassins redirect here. ...

"A corrupt police officer named Mel Bernstein (Harris Yulin) meets with Tony in the Babylon Club, where he proposes to "tax" him on his transactions. There the two negotiate a large bribe for Bernstein, along with first-class airline tickets to London. Tony is shot at by two Colombian hitmen in the Babylon, and narrowly escapes in the shootout that follows. Tony then sets up a trap for Bernstein, and has Manny shoot him dead. Tony then gives Frank's henchman, Ernie, a job. He then leaves and takes Elvira to his house. Tony had overthrown Frank, and a blimp with the caption "THE WORLD IS YOURS" hovered in the distance." As Quentin Travers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Bribery is a crime implying a sum or gift given alters the behaviour of the person in ways not consistent with the duties of that person. ...

Tony soon completes his business deal with Sosa. On his first deal he makes $75 million. Soon after, Frank is killed and Tony takes over the distribution. He buys 2000 kilo of cocaine from Sosa which he sells for $75 million dollars. Which was laundered for him by a corrupt banker, but he wants more and is soon making $10–$15 million a month. Tony marries Elvira and buys a lavish mansion, even buying Gina her own beauty parlor. Meanwhile, Manny and Gina began dating behind his back, and Tony and Elvira become heavily addicted to cocaine. Kilo (symbol: k) is a prefix in the SI system denoting 103 or 1000. ... Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ... Drug addiction, or dependency is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. ...

Tony is later caught attempting to launder $1.3 million by undercover cops, and faces up to three years in prison. Sosa confronts Tony and informs him that he can make sure he does not face any prison time, but only if he supervises the assassination of a journalist who is troubling Sosa's entire drug operation in Bolivia. Reluctantly, Tony agrees and plants a car bomb. Tony and the hitman are then surprised to see the man's wife and two daughters enter the car with him at his hotel. Repulsed at the idea of murdering children Tony demands that the plan be aborted, but the hitman insists on obeying Sosa's orders. In a cocaine-induced rage, Tony murders the hitman. Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ... Look up Undercover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Car bomb (disambiguation). ...

Manny and Gina disappear and get married while Tony is in New York; they believe that in joining together respectably, they would win Tony's approval. Tony returns to his mansion, where by then his wife has left him, and learns that Sosa has sent thugs after him. Then he speaks to his mother over the phone and finds out about Gina's disappearance. He finds Manny and Gina together, flies into a rage and kills Manny. He then takes his hysterical sister to his house. This article is about the state. ...

Gina then berates him for his sins, speculating that he is so protective towards her because he wants her for himself; she says for him to seduce her, she takes out a gun and begins shooting at him, wounding him in the leg. Meanwhile, Sosa's hitmen invade Tony's mansion, killing his henchmen and, accidentally, Gina. Wild with rage, Tony charges the man and throws him off his balcony into the pool below, where he shoots him. Soon, he notices the soldiers Sosa sent to murder him on his surveillance system and sits on the floor of his office, sobbing over Gina's corpse as Chi Chi bangs on his door, pleading for him to open it. Tony, completely oblivious, watches from the surveillance monitor as Chi Chi is shot dead in the back. Sosa's soldiers gather in Tony's main hall, four of them in front of his door; ready to ambush him. For other uses, see Surveillance (disambiguation). ...

Shouting in his cocaine-induced rage, Tony takes an M16 rifle with an M203 grenade launcher attachment from his weapon locker and loads up on ammunition. Opposition mounts just outside of the door to his room ready to take him out. He yells his iconic catchphrase "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" and blows the door apart. He walks out calmly as he kills each one with his rifle. He then walks out to his balcony and opens fire on his would-be assassins. The assassins fire back as well, hitting Tony several times, but he always gets back up. As Tony makes his last stand, Sosa's assassin silently walks up to him from behind and shoots him in the back. Mortally wounded, he plunges several feet below into the fountain, dead. With fitting irony, the camera pans up to show the gruesome scene crowned by the statue behind Tony's body reading The World Is Yours. M16 (more formally United States Rifle, Caliber 5. ... M203 generally refers to the United States Army designation for a single shot 40 mm grenade launcher that attaches to the M16 assault rifle or the M4 Carbine. ... Ironic redirects here. ...

In popular culture

Since the release of Scarface, the Tony Montana character has been widely referenced and parodied in popular culture. In the world of hip hop, particularly gangsta rap, Montana is widely seen as a role model for his "outsider" status, rise from poverty to wealth and power and appetite for violence. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that societys vernacular language or lingua franca. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... For the Ice T album, see Gangsta Rap (album). ... Don Imus, The term role model was introduced by Robert K. Merton[1]. Merton says that individuals compare themselves with reference groups of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires. ...

Each DVD release inspired the largely Hispanic population in Hudson County, New Jersey to "camp out" in front of retail stores such as Best Buy in Secaucus, as well as Circuit City in Union City. Both stores indicated record high sales on the release dates. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... Hudson County is in New Jersey, U.S.A, with its county seat in Jersey City6. ... For the defunct chain of catalog showrooms, see Best Products. ... Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, USA. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 15,931. ... Circuit City (NYSE: CC) is an American dealer and retailer in brand-name consumer electronics, personal computers, and entertainment software. ... Spectators viewing the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks from across the Hudson River, in the terrace courtyard of the Union City Boxing Club. ...

The animated series, The Boondocks pays homage to Tony Montana in its season 1 intro. In the intro, Riley Freeman is modeled after Tony Montana's classic picture to Scarface. Also, in the first episode of the series, Riley is shown wearing a similar suit to that of Tony Montana's in the movie. This article is about an animated television series. ...

In the popular animated series, The Batman, the classic Batman villain The Ventriloquist is featured with a revised design for his puppet. The puppet in the show is dressed in Tony Montanna's trademark white suit, rather than a wardrobe reminiscent of Al Capone, which he wore in the original comic books. The Batman is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... The Ventriloquist is a DC Comics villain, an enemy of Batman. ... “Capone” redirects here. ...

Lines from the film are also frequently sampled in hip-hop songs. The Houston-based Geto Boys were one of the earliest rap groups to sample the lines and dialogue. During Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome," Flavor Flav recites several lines from the film. Music from the movie has also been sampled in the instrumentals for hip-hop songs such as Mobb Deep's "G.O.D. Pt. III" and "It's Mine". Nas' "The World is Yours" takes its title from the motto Montana lived by. One hip-hop artist, Brad Jordan (later a member of the Geto Boys) has even gone so far as to name himself Scarface after the film, and another goes by the name Tony Montana. Jay-Z's 1996 debut album, Reasonable Doubt, also samples Omar's lines to Montana regarding the deal with the Colombian's on the intro to the song Can't Knock The Hustle. This article is about reusing existing sound recordings in creating new works. ... Houston redirects here. ... Geto Boys (intentionally misspelled, although sometimes also spelled Ghetto Boys) is a rap group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill. ... Public Enemy, also known as PE, is a hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for their politically charged lyrics, criticism of the media, and active interest in the concerns of the African American community. ... This article is about the musician. ... Mobb Deep are a hip hop duo which consists of rappers Havoc and Prodigy. ... Its Mine is the second single from Mobb Deeps 1999 album Murda Muzik and features Nas. ... For other uses, see Nas (disambiguation). ... Brad Terrence Jordan[1] (born on November 9, 1970 in New Jersey), better known by his stage name Scarface (and formerly Akshen) is an American rapper originally known for his work as a member of The Geto Boys. ... Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Reasonable doubt redirects here. ...

Various Latin rap artists such as Immortal Technique, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link and The Beatnuts have sampled lines from the movie. Felipe Coronel (born February 19, 1979), better known as Immortal Technique, is a Hip hop MC and political activist. ... Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper of Puerto Rican descent, and is signed to Imperial Records. ... Christopher Lee Rios (November 9, 1971 - February 7, 2000), better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was an American rapper of Puerto Rican descent who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. ... Felix Delgado (born 1974,in Havana, Cuba), known by stage name Cuban Link, is a rapper best known for his former membership in the group Terror Squad, his friendship with Latin rapper Big Pun, and his problems with rapper Fat Joe. ... The Beatnuts are a hip hop crew from Queens, New York City. ...

The game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City features many references to the film Scarface and to Tony Montana himself. Among those are that of the main character, Tommy Vercetti, as he has a botched drug deal at the beginning of the story, he is exiled from his old home, and eventually rises to power in the new city he's in by killing the town's biggest drug lord, who is his former friend. During gameplay, Tommy acquires a suit that is identical to the one Montana wears during the film's climatic gun battle. Also, Vercetti's former employeer ambushes him at his new mansion and tries to kill him, the big difference being that Tommy, unlike Montana, didn't use his cocaine for himself, and in turn, manages to survive the final gun battle. As well, in a subtle nod to the infamous "chainsaw torture" scene in Scarface, in Vice City there is a hotel room that is accessible during the game where the bathroom is found to have blood-stains in the shape of feet and hands, the bath tub is filled with blood complete with a hand poking out of it, and a chainsaw is lying on the floor nearby. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (released in October 2002) is the fourth video game in the hit Grand Theft Auto series. ... Thomas Tommy Vercetti is a fictional character, voiced by Ray Liotta, in the Grand Theft Auto video game series. ...

Tony Montana is referenced in an episode of the HBO series The Wire. In season 1, episode 12, Cleaning Up, the character of Detective Jimmy McNulty, watching a SWAT team surround the headquarters of a drug kingpin, quips, "Do they think it's Tony Montana up there? These guys probably haven't touched a gun in years."

Scarface: The World Is Yours

The video game titled Scarface: The World Is Yours, a quasi-sequel to the film, features an alternate ending and epilogue of sorts to the movie. In the opening scene of the game — the original "ending" scene of the movie — Montana detects his would-be assassin and shoots him before escaping his mansion. He then spends the next three months hiding before beginning a quest to rebuild his empire.

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